Failed to Report the
Purported Victims'
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Los Angeles County, CA

O. J. Simpson

June 12, 1994 (Brentwood)

Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson was found civilly liable for the
murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and Ronald Lyle Goldman,
25. He had earlier been acquitted of the murders in criminal court,
but he is perceived by many as guilty despite his acquittal. The
victims, who were white, were found outside Nicole's home at 875 S. Bundy
Drive in Brentwood, CA. O.J., who was black, was a Heisman trophy
winner, a Hollywood movie actor, a network TV football commentator, and was
known for the TV commercials he made for the Hertz Rental Car Agency. He was the most famous American ever charged with murder. O.J.'s
criminal trial was dubbed the “Trial of the Century,” although that
designation had previously been used to describe the 1935 trial of the
alleged Lindbergh baby killer.Read More by Clicking Here

Larimer County, CO

Tim Masters

Feb 11, 1987 (Fort Collins)

Tim Masters was convicted in 1999 of the 1987 murder of Peggy
Hettrick. Hettrick's body had been found in a south Fort Collins field
just hours after she was last seen leaving a nearby restaurant. This
location was 100 feet north of the mobile home of Tim Masters. Masters' father told police that his 15-year-old son had walked through the
field as he did every day to take a bus to school.Read More by Clicking Here

Pinellas County, FL

George Lewis

May 23, 1984 (Gulfport)

George Allen Lewis was convicted of the rape and murder of a
36-year-old neighbor, Karen Gregory. Gregory lived at the corner of 27
Ave. and Upton St. in Gulfport, FL. Around 1 a.m. on May 23, 1984,
more than a dozen of Gregory's neighbors heard a loud piercing scream. Most paid little attention, but on the morning of the 24th, Gregory was
found raped and brutally murdered. When interviewed later, Lewis said
that upon hearing the scream he walked towards Gregory's house to
investigate, but turned around after he failed to see anything suspicious. Lewis was a firefighter and a neighborhood crime watch volunteer. He
had a crime watch sign in his yard. Lewis had a sterling reputation
and was friends with the case investigator, Detective Larry Tosi.Read More by Clicking Here

Kootenai County, ID

Donald Paradis

June 21, 1980 (Post Falls)

Donald Manuel Paradis was sentenced to death for the murder of
19-year-old Kimberly Anne Palmer. Paradis was a leader of the Gypsy
Jokers motorcycle gang. Prior to the murder he allowed a number of
people to use his home in Spokane, WA. On June 21, 1980, Palmer was
strangled to death in his home and her boyfriend, Scott Currier, was beaten
to death. Paradis was not home at the time of the crime. The
victims' killers have since been established, and both the killers and other
witnesses made it clear that Paradis had nothing to do with the killings.

When Paradis came home and found the bodies, he feared he
would be accused of the murders. So he and two other men wrapped the
bodies in sleeping bags and put them in a car. He then drove the
bodies across the state line and dumped them in Post Falls, Idaho.

Paradis was tried in Washington for the murder of Currier, but
was acquitted. William Brady, the pathologist who performed an autopsy
on Palmer, fostered the impression that Palmer had been killed in Idaho. Brady's improbable theory became the basis for Idaho authorities to
prosecute Paradis for the murder of Palmer. Brady was later fired from
his job as a medical examiner in nearby Oregon. An investigation showed that
he had used state facilities to perform private autopsies, had sold human
tissue for profit, and had saved human blood collected during autopsies for
use in his garden.

At trial, Paradis's court-appointed lawyer was William Brown. Brown had never studied criminal law, never tried a felony case, and never
tried a case before a jury. He was also working as a police officer in
Coeur D'Alene at the same time he was representing Paradis at his Coeur
D'Alene trial. Some of the prosecution witnesses were Brown's fellow
police officers. Brown's defense of Paradis lasted three hours.

In 1996, Idaho Governor Batt commuted Paradis's death sentence
to life without parole. In April 2001, a federal judge vacated
Paradis's conviction because prosecutors withheld potentially exculpatory
evidence. Prosecutors then dropped charges against Paradis after he
pled guilty to moving a corpse. He was sentenced to five years in
prison and released for time served as he had already served 21 years.
(NY Times)
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Stark County, OH

Robert Domer

Apr 23, 1963

Robert K. Domer was sentenced to death for the murder of a
corpse that he used to stage his own suicide. Domer owned a Canton, OH
mortgage company which was going through hard times due to an economic
downturn and because an employee had made loans that went bad because he did
not follow proper procedures. This employee then ran off with some of
the company's funds. Domer himself had illegally manipulated the
company funds to keep the company afloat. After auditors came to look
at his books, Domer faced disgrace and possible criminal charges.Read More by Clicking Here

Montgomery County, PA

Gerald Wentzel

Dec 6, 1946 (Pottstown)

Gerald C. Wentzel was convicted in 1947 of the strangulation
murder of Mrs. Miriam Green, a 29-year-old divorcee. Green was last seen
entering her apartment at 358 Chestnut St. in Pottstown on the early evening
of Friday, Dec. 6, 1946. Green's mother said her daughter had planned
to visit her that Friday, but she did not visit, nor did she call to say
why. Green did not report for work Saturday morning, nor did she call
in sick. The thermostat for her apartment building was located in her
apartment. She had diligently taken care of resetting the thermostat
after the furnace went off, but had not that weekend. Because of the
cold, neighbors had knocked on her door several times during the weekend,
but had gotten no response. Finally, on Monday afternoon, Dec. 9,
neighbors entered her apartment and found her dead.Read More by Clicking Here